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This quiz consists of 5 multiple choice and 5 short answer questions through Chapter 3, Retrospect, Southern Africa and Beyond, 1979-1986.

Multiple Choice Questions

1. Who raised Bessie?
(a) Her mother's sister.
(b) Her father's parents.
(c) A black foster mother.
(d) Her mother's maid.

2. What does the musician, Makeba, have a passion for?
(a) America.
(b) The cello.
(c) Public performances.
(d) Liberation.

3. In Chapter 2, whose religious ideas hold great appeal for Bessie?
(a) The local bishop.
(b) The Pope.
(c) Buddah.
(d) Professor Mbiti.

4. According to Bessie, the blacks of Cape Town accept hell to have what?
(a) Their dignity.
(b) Their lives.
(c) Freedom to practice cultural traditions.
(d) Peace.

5. What does Bessie attribute her bad habits and violent nature to?
(a) Fellow refugees.
(b) Drugs.
(c) How she grew up.
(d) Mental instability.

Short Answer Questions

1. In "African religions," Bessie states that African religion doesn't receive value because they don't have what?

2. What did the American woman send Bessie?

3. Bessie described her friend, Snowball, as perfectly black except for his what?

4. Bessie feels that the main function of a writer is to communicate what?

5. What does Snowball believe can co-exist?

(see the answer key)

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